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Eric Scott Skigen (Supervisor)
OS/2007008549101

Skigen created falsified electronic notes of his purported meetings and conversations with a customer after the customer filed an arbitration claim. Skigen provided the falsified notes to outside counsel in the arbitration case, without advising counsel or his member firm that he had falsified and backdated the notes, and misrepresented that the notes had been prepared contemporaneously with the conversations. Skigen created similar falsified notes for another customer. Skigen provided false testimony during a FINRA on-the-record interview. 

Eric Scott Skigen (Supervisor): Barred